Heinrich von Hügel

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Georg Heinrich von Hügel (born August 7, 1828 in Mainz , † August 2, 1899 in Berlin ) was a German architect and railway contractor.

Life

After Heinrich von Hügel had passed a "special building test" in Darmstadt in 1850 , he found employment in the construction of railways in the Palatinate from 1854 to 1856. Then he made a name for himself in the 50s / 60s of the 19th century as the leading architect ( directorate architect ) of the Bayerische Ostbahn . In this function, he planned and built railroad tracks and the associated company buildings for his employer. This also included the Regensburg main station , which opened in 1859, but had to give way to a new building in the neo-renaissance style further north in 1886.

Heinrich von Hügel later went into business for himself as an architect in Munich , where he built the armory and the palace of Count Schack . The Villa Kustermann in Tutzing and in 1867 the theater in Franzensbad (today Františkovy Lázně , Czech Republic ) were also built from Hügel . In Regensburg in 1868 after the demolition of the city ​​wall in the area of ​​the green belt of Fürstenallee on the foundations of the city wall and the Roman wall, he built the first city palace in the Renaissance style for the privateer Johann Gschwendtner. The elegant-looking building, reminiscent of Schinkel's pavilion in the Charlottenburg Palace Park, housed the district leadership of the NSDAP during the Nazi era, was officially called " Ostmarkhaus ", but was generally called "Schwarzhaupt-Villa" after the previous Jewish owner. The city had extorted the villa from the widow of the wholesaler Schwarzhaupt in 1935 for a ridiculous price. After the war, the villa was demolished in 1955 in favor of a new building for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Heinrich von Hügel had the casino built in Bad Kissingen from 1878 to 1880 in collaboration with his site manager Wilhelm Carl von Doderer . According to his plans and under his construction, the Alice Hospital in Darmstadt (Dieburger Straße 21) was completed in 1883 . In order to support this charitable project, von Hügel waived his fee.

In addition to his changing main residences in Munich, Vienna and Berlin, Hügel acquired the “Villa Breitwiesenweg” in Darmstadt in 1878 as a “summer apartment” (probably because his first wife, Marie Luise Vietor, came from Darmstadt). Hill added two extensions to the house, built in the classicist style by the architect Heinrich Lerch in 1836, and built a garden house and stables next to it. In addition, he created a park and expanded it. Except for the garden house (today's address: Brahmsweg 8), the property fell victim to the bombs during World War II .

Heinrich von Hügel also took part in many competitions (e.g. for the town hall in Munich and the parliament building in The Hague ) and exhibited numerous plans at the international art exhibition in Munich in 1869.

When planning his building, he mostly used the design language of the Italian Renaissance . Its architectural style is therefore one of the neo-renaissance .

Heinrich von Hügel entered the construction industry in 1869 when he and Michael Sager founded the Hügel & Sager construction company in Munich . Very successful quickly, the company also expanded to Austria-Hungary . On behalf of the state, his company built railway lines in almost all parts of the country. Examples are:

In the course of a few years Heinrich von Hügel rose to become one of the largest railway construction companies of his time. In Vienna, he bought a palace on Vienna's Kolowratring (Schubertring since 1928), which developed into a social meeting place. In addition to musicians like Johannes Brahms and artists like Caspar von Zumbusch , the most famous architects of the Wilhelminian era , including Heinrich von Ferstel and Carl Wilhelm von Doderer, frequented the city.

Heinrich von Hügel was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: III M 90–95). The tomb was built between 1890 and 1891 by the Viennese architect Max von Ferstel and is still preserved.

Honors

Heinrich Hügel received various honors for his services. He was appointed to both the “Grand Ducal Hessian Secret Building Council” (1867) and the “Royal Bavarian Building Council” (1883). In addition, Heinrich Hügel was given personal nobility (for life) by Austria-Hungary in 1875 and hereditary nobility by the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1881 .

family

Heinrich von Hügel came from a middle-class background. His father, David Martin Hügel (1794–1875), first made it to the Rhine shipowner in Mainz and then later to the “Grand Ducal Hessian Goods Expedition” of the “ Main-Weser Railway ” in Gießen . In 1822 he married Margarethe Brehm (1799–1839). With her he first had two daughters and then twin sons, one of whom was Heinrich von Hügel.

His first wife, Marie Luise Vietor (1836–1890), married Heinrich von Hügel on June 10, 1857 in Darmstadt. With her he had four daughters. The second-born, Johanne Caroline Louise (1862–1946), married Hügel's manager and later building contractor Wilhelm Carl von Doderer (1855–1932). Another daughter, Friederike Charlotte (1863–1949), married the Austrian architect Max von Ferstel (1859–1936). In the Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer , Heinrich von Hügel also had a later very well-known grandson.

Heinrich von Hügel married Anna (Aenny) Louise Garbe (1870–1931) for the second time in Berlin on September 15, 1891. The marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 4, Reimer, Berlin 1902, p. 149.
  • Hill, Heinrich von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 53 .
  • Eduard Grimmel: Hessian gender book. CA Starke, Limburg an Lahn 1964, p. 240 f. and 249 f.
  • Wolfgang Fleischer: Heimito von Doderer. The life. The environment of the work in photos and documents. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00603-1 , p. 11 ff.
  • Wolfgang Fleischer: The Denied Life. The biography of Heimito von Doderer. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-218-00619-8 , pp. 14 f., 17 f., 22, 24 ff., 33, 41 and 44.

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A personal file on Hügel (running from 1851–1883) is in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 42 .